I decided to start a new game plus, on hard mode... I realized you can
now skip cutscenes with the 1 button, awesome, that helps a lot. There's
a lot of vanishing ghosts in the Osaka house in chapter 1 that are
kinda tricky to get, even when you expect them. I ended still missing a
couple ghosts in that chapter now because I wasn't following the guide
closely enough. I then started chapter 2, and already missing 1 ghost in
a group of 3 vanishing ghosts that appear at the same time... but
that's fine I can leave these few stragglers for a 3rd playthrough.
Ghost list is now 66% complete.. I played for 3 hours and this playthrough is now at about 1 hour of game time...
12/03/2016
Went through chapter 2, 3, and 4 just now... I went through the whole
Kurosawa house a lot faster this time, while getting every vanishing
ghost and barely getting hit at all by the hostile ghosts, and getting a
lot more fatal frames than my first playthrough... I'm way better at
this now.
Damn.. there's these 4 ghosts in the Master's room that you have to get
BEFORE you enter the room... I didn't even notice I missed them before
saving it. oh well I guess that'll be for a 3rd playthrough, where I
rush through the game on normal mode and clean up the last remaining
ghosts and get another of the endings.
12/04/2016
Just got through all of chapters 5 and 6, where Mayu and Mio get
separated again and have to go through the Osaka house again to get the
key to get into the Kiryu house, and then find a way to open the
underground passage into the Tachibana house...
Even some of these tougher enemies that were a pain in the ass the first
time, I'm getting through them pretty easily on hard mode now. It
really seems like the only difference in hard mode is that the enemies
do more damage. They seem just as aggressive as before. There might be a
few instances where you have to fight more of them than usual? but I'm
not sure, it's hard to tell.
For the dollmaker fight, this time my strategy is to run around the
outside of the room until I get safely away from the dolls, and then
look around to try to find where he is and do a max shot on him to get
him to stop animating the dolls... He's actually easier in the 2nd form
because the purple aura makes him much more visible.
and yeah, I'm still missing like a few vanishing ghosts in each chapter.
I got most of the hard ones at least, but some of these are just really
silly... Like in chapter 5 there's one that's supposed to appear in the
ruins of the Tachibana house after you've visited either the Osaka
house or the Storeroom. I tried looking around after clearing the Osaka
house but couldn't find her... I guess you have to do it before getting
the Kiryu house key? and in chapter 6 it was another situation like in
chapter 4, where some ghosts are supposed to appear in the next room
before you enter it, but I couldn't get them to trigger for some reason.
12/05/2016
Chapter 7 is annoying... That first part where you are chased by Sae
until you get back to the bridge isn't so bad anymore... but after that
there's hostile ghosts in like almost every room... I'm able to get
fatal frames on all of them, but can never get any fatal combos because
they're in such close quarters they always get pushed back behind a
wall.
I didn't even bother doing all the Kiryu house ghost refights would've
just drained my film and possibly health for no reason. The Tachibana
house takes a while to fully explore... Possibly even longer than the
first time doing the Kurosawa house. Mainly because of Chitose... That
girl that constantly cries out for Itsuki... You have to fight her at
least twice before you get the key to where Mayu is... but if you want
to fully explore the Tachibana house you have to fight her like 5 times.
She's not hard at all, just takes a while before she shows her face.
also if you leave her alone for too long, she'll scream out and cause
the entire room to go pitch black and make you unable to track where she
is for like a minute.
Actually it isn't really as annoying as chapter 6... Those damn
twin/doll ghost battles are ridiculous. The only way I could figure out
to do it without getting hit was to shoot the doll with a max shot as
soon as possible, and only when there are no dolls to worry about, then
go after the real twin and try to get a fatal frame on her.
At chapter 8 now... nearly 9 hours of game time. Also I think getting past 75% ghost completion unlocked the white outfit.
12/06/2016
Difficulty: Hard
Clear Time: 11:46:50
Total Score: 689245
Rank E
lmao what...
"You can now select Nightmare Mode."
NOPE
At least not for now... I do like this game a lot though, so I might try out Nightmare Mode some time in the future.
Anyway... The 8th chapter was easy, just a bunch of refights against
ghosts that I already know how to get fatal frames and beat without
getting hit...
The final chapter is ridiculous though... at this point I decided
against refighting the ghosts in here. these enemies are quite a pain to
deal with when they are in groups, so I just ran past them and went
straight to the next room instead.
That Kurosawa head guy was really hard.. I really HATE how he keeps
showing up behind the wall or for some reason just decides to not be
vulnerable to my camera... Eventually I figured out that you have to
kill the 2 servant ghosts he summons before you can do any more damage
to him, but it's still very chaotic until you take care of them.
Had to deal with 6 or 7 or so of those darkness kusabi ghosts while
going down the deep path to the ending area... They are easy when alone,
but when there's 2 of them they overwhelm me. still I got through it
without much problem.
That abyss monster was much harder now... it seems like he regenerates
faster this time. I'm using up my 90-film and I still can't beat him
unless I make full use of the "Fatal Time" special lens and get more
than 3 fatal frame hits in... or otherwise just get lucky and have him
open up his fatal frame points quickly. it took me longer than 5 minutes
to beat this guy on hard mode, which meant that I got the Shadow
Festival ending instead of the Hellish Abyss ending I was going for.
When Mio goes down to the abyss where Mayu is, Mayu says it's already
too late... The repentance has started coming out of it... Mio and Mayu
sit there and watch as they get engulfed by the repentance... and then
for some reason it goes to a festival scene where Mayu and Mio are
peacefully enjoying the festival...
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